At what stage do you play the Trump card?
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When all the chips are on the table
Beat me to it, once the bad guys play what they think is the winning hand, and start pulling the chips in, and then the person says "not so fast" and puts down the trump card.
That's how it works out in the movies at least.
In poker, but bridge is where trumps are a built-in feature. The players bet on the number of tricks they can win with various suits, e.g. 3 hearts, and the trumps, if declared, are like a side game of chicken.
They don't make many movies about playing bridge... except that 80's Cocoon, and even then I might not remember right.
Too slow of a game.
That’s euchre
Similar idea, bridge uses a full deck of 52 which makes card counting a little harder and the game slower.
That only works if you still have more chips than your opponent. If you stay in a game where you keep losing and losing eventually you don't have enough left to draw all their chips out, so you can only go all in with what you have.
You dont have to extend the analogy with this. Its when the enemy pulls what they think is the ultimate finishing move only to get countered.